The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can. Unless it’s inhibiting the bootup process, leaking or trying to charge failed cells, it isn’t going to hurt anything.
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If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
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If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system or Win2K if possible. XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old, especially with SP3. If it came with XP and you don’t have a choice, just keep that in mind and look at a RAM upgrade of 1-2GB to help the notebook compensate. If it doesn’t support this, max it out as far as it can go.
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In terms of the hard drive if you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead (if installed). If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as old versions of Windows (9x/2K/XP) do not partition SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable for 9x and 2K - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can with XP. Even then, it’s better to do some overprovisioning to avoid lifespan problems.
The other problem is if the drive caddy is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay. The adapter isn’t hard to find, but the caddy is a bit harder to acquire.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook (it had the classic bad GPU problem). It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can. Unless it’s inhibiting the bootup process, leaking or trying to charge failed cells, it isn’t going to hurt anything.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
The other problem is if the drive caddy is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay. The adapter isn’t hard to find, but the caddy is a bit harder to acquire.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
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In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook. It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
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In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook (it had the classic bad GPU problem). It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
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The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can. Unless it’s inhibiting the bootup process, leaking or trying to charge failed cells, it isn’t going to hurt anything.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
The other problem is if the drive caddy is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay. The adapter isn’t hard to find, but the caddy is a bit harder to acquire.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook. It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
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The other problem is if the drive is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay.
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The other problem is if the drive caddy is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay. The adapter isn’t hard to find, but the caddy is a bit harder to acquire.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook. It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
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The other problem is if the drive is gone, most of the IDE notebooks use an adapter to avoid pin damage and have a caddy designed accordingly. That’s going to be found in a donor with a dead drive or on eBay.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook. It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
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In terms of the adapter, yes. The original is probably 18-19V and you lose ~1V when the adapter is under load. Find an appropriate adapter. Again, for my nc6000 I had to substitute the 18.5V for a 19V I had from a 2007 DV Series notebook. It’s working well for why I dug it out despite being .5V more then the original adapter, but as I said before you end up losing ~1V to load, so it balances out.
The hard drive is probably long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
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The hard drive is probably missing or long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
Follow these guidelines for formatting:
* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
The hard drive is probably long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
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If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in 2010), so you will need to convert the notebook over to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM is REQUIRED - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP. I will get links later, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA). If you do manage to find it, the A55 64GB SSD (format this as a 60GB drive so you have +4GB of overprovisioning space available) will work well for Win9X. Otherwise, get the 128GB I did and format for 120GB and leave 8GB for overprovisioning.
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If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in ~2010), so you will need to convert the notebook to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM (and user overprovisioning) is REQUIRED and is non-negotiable - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP to have a chance at bypassing the overprovisioning requirement.
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In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced.
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Adapt this how you want, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079X7K6VP/|Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA)]. If you manage to find it (unlikely), the A55 64GB SSD will work well for Win9X.
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Follow these guidelines for formatting:
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* 128GB: 120GB (8GB OP space)
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* 64GB: 60GB (4GB OP space)
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In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced. '''Unless you get lucky and find one on Amazon, this is an eBay purchase. Search for “M.2 to IDE” without the quotes.'''
The hard drive is probably long dead, along with the battery. These 90’s batteries can be opened easily and rebuilt, but you need a spot welder to do it properly. Unless you have this and need it, I would say leave the dead battery installed to balance the chassis and keep the appearance intact as well as you can.
If you want to be sure the drive is dead before replacing it, what you can do is try installing an operating system on it; use a Win9X series operating system, as 2K and XP will run like a slow dog on a machine this old. If you have any problems or the drive doesn’t show up, it’s probably dead. If that’s the case, you’re SOL on finding a spinning IDE hard drive unless you get lucky (last ones were made in 2010), so you will need to convert the notebook over to solid state. The catch is you will need to format the SSD on a Vista/7/8.x/10 system, as the Win9X series has the same issue XP has: it cannot format SSD’s properly. In addition to that, hardware TRIM is REQUIRED - it can’t be shoehorned in like you can do with XP. I will get links later, but for my conversion to the nc6000 I have (WinXP), I chose a Silicon Power A55 128GB SSD (M.2 SATA). If you do manage to find it, the A55 64GB SSD (format this as a 60GB drive so you have +4GB of overprovisioning space available) will work well for Win9X. Otherwise, get the 128GB I did and format for 120GB and leave 8GB for overprovisioning.
In addition to the SSD, you will need an M.2->IDE adapter (with case). These are more expensive then M.2->SATA as a translation chip (similar to the one in i915 notebooks with IDE) is required, but other then the requirement to format externally (due to the age of the OS not doing it right) and the adapter, it’s doable. This is usually what I tell people to try first as native IDE SSD’s are rare and overpriced.